Reformed Baptist Church

These remarkable words of Christ should encourage the church today to attempt great things for Christ and ask great things of Him.

A day of judgment is coming upon Jerusalem, the Valley of Vision, but the people are throwing a party. For their hard-hearted refusal to repent, there will be no atonement.

The Lord will smite Egypt, but also heal her. Judah, therefore, must not look to Egypt for help, but neither should Judah overlook Egypt. The world (Egypt) has nothing ultimately to offer God's people. But we have what the world needs most: a Savior! We freely offer Christ to a lost and dying world. Through Him alone will all the families of the earth be blessed.

In this burden against proud, pagan Moab, we see the judgment pronounced against them, the compassion felt for them, and the hope set forth and held out to them. That hope is the hope of every sinner: Jesus Christ, whose throne is established in mercy (16:5).

Christ rules and reigns in righteousness. He will render true and perfect justice in the end. This will be the inevitable result of His character (vv. 3a, 5), His competence (v. 3b), and His commitment to truth and justice (v. 4).